I ran at UK Game Expo this morning
The game was set in my Hangover City setting and the plays were all members Rare Breed. Thank to all of you of you who helped design the characters for this
check out the request a character freed for details.
They were approached by a panicy woman with an toddler who claims some thing is following them. After a bit of observation they worked out that both the Spirits of chinatown, and the faerie of clubland are after the child, and the two factions have blocked of either end of the street and are facing off to decided who gets the kid by slugging it out on a busy shopping street in broad daylight on a Saturday afternoon.
With a little more questioning they discovered the father of the child was Cale Tien - thus explaining Chinatowns interest, and adding in the fact that the Breed also had a claim on the child.
On questioning Cale they discovered that when they were children Cale technically promised his daughter to Casandra - or at least he said she could not have his sons when she tried to claim his children. They also discovered Cale had been unaware of his fatherhood before their call... So that was a nice surprise
So the group found themselves having to decide wether to smuggle child and mother out, or negotiate a solution between the interested parties- or just run away and let chaos reign.
So.. How badly did it all go wrong?
Well the pcs managed to turn every conflict into a social one and thus side step all the fights! Which given they are all technically mortals facing supernaturals wasn't a bad survival tactic,
Father Rocko, after persuading Angela that her daughter needed all the help she could get, baptised the child - thus claiming another soul for the lord and introducing a forth faction into the conflict.
Henry Pym gave into his kleptomania and went to pick pocked the crowd thar had gathered around the Faerie, who had started a spontaneous art event involving a performance of 'Waiting for Godot'. He pulled of a few successful 'dips' he decided to have a go at Casandra's body guard, who was a lot more observant and captured him. Casandra's then called them to thank them for the hostage and dragged him back to her club.
Abra Cavandish did a lot of running around and talking to factions trying to work out how every one was involved and what claim they have on the toddler.
Pricilla stood guard over mum and baby incase any one tried anything
Terry discovered that Face paint tastes slightly worse than a kebab that has been in the gutter for three days and run over twice.
The final solution was the various factions were invited to provide a 'god parents' to aid in brining up the child Pricilla representing the Breed, Tu Di Gong representing China Town, and Cassandra taking the role of Faerie Godmother. Father Rocko carried out the ceremony with everyone else throwing in support, and thus creating the aspects for the child's character.
None of the players had played DFRPG before, a few had read the books, one was testing out the game on behalf of a friend who was thinking of buying it - good news is his feed back was positive and his mate will buy.
Two of the players borrowed by book for a look through. They were a little intimidated by how thick the book was as they were playing smaller games like Dogs in the vineyard. But they were impressed by the quality and the contents.
